Take a trip through history with Parks Canada at the Variety Heritage Adventure Park. Join us for games and colouring, then journey through the Adventure Park! Scale the Fort Gibraltar walls, ride in the Red River Cart, or hop aboard The Countess of Dufferin train and imagine traveling across the sunny prairies.

Come by the Parks Canada Kiosk to learn more about The Forks’ greatest stories. We’re also launching our public programming for the summer. Stop by the Kiosk for one of our weekend tours or the Variety Heritage Adventure Park for our FREE half-hour HistoryBytes programs.

It's August 1914 and Britain has declared war on Germany. There's excitement in Winnipeg as the First World War begins, but the mood soon sours as the list of casualties rolls in.

Join Parks Canada at The Forks National Historic Site as we commemorate 100 years since the start of the First World War on August 4. Explore the impact of the war on Winnipeg and Manitoba through crafts, discussion, propaganda and photographs.

Discover the effect of war on a young city – marches down Portage Avenue, government propaganda on telephone poles, and “enemy aliens” sent to internment camps in Brandon. Make a victory bond button and learn the recipe for trench cake, a treat sometimes sent to the front lines. Then, examine war propaganda found in Winnipeg at the time. Would you have been convinced?

Displays and crafts: August 2-4, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Variety Heritage Adventure Park

Commemorative Ceremony: August 4, 11:00 a.m. at the Orientation Circle